July 2021 Catalogue

61 S p o r t s Scientific And Tactical Treatise On American Football For Schools And Colleges , 1893, Inscribed By Amos Alonzo Stagg 65. (FOOTBALL) STAGG, Amos Alonzo and WILLIAMS, Henry L. A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges. Hartford, Connecticut, 1893. 12mo, original blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $4800. Click for more info Scarce first edition of one of the first and most important works on American football, with numerous play diagrams, inscribed by co-author Amos Alonzo Stagg: “To our staunch supporters of athletics at the University of Chicago. Gratefully, A.A. Stagg.” “Stagg coached football, as well as baseball and track, at the University of Chicago for 40 years, until he was forced to retire at the age of seventy in 1932. His contributions to athletics in general and football in particular will probably never be matched... Stagg is unquestionably one of the great figures in the history of football” (ANB). Without very rare dust jacket. Expert reinforcement to front inner hinge, only modest wear to cloth extremities and light darkening to spine. An excellent copy.